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"But what did we really, sincerely, expect anyway, from a movie in which Slim Pickens plays a character named 'Tex'? If you can think of a single line of dialog that Slim Pickens, as 'Tex,' wouldn't say in Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, please do not miss this movie, which will be filled with amazements and startling revelations."

Boss: Shut up, Scarf! Pashmina: My name isn't Scarf, it's Pashmina. Boss: Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah! Pashiman's used to make a scarf. You have no other characteristic besides "Scarf". So until further notice, your name is Scarf! Pashmina: But... Boss: Your name is a noun just like all the other Ham Hams; Hat, Fat, Book, Book 2, Girl, Corpse, Pac-Man Ghost and Panda. Panda's cool, we hung out.Maxwell: Am I the only one concerned about that corpse? Oxnard: NO!

"The Matrix is not what you'd call a subtle movie...when the film wanted to hint that Pantoliano will turn traitor, it named his character after the spelling variant of 'cipher,' which means, among other things, 'zero.' In binary terms, 'zero' is the opposite of 'one,' which is how everybody refers to Neo, which in turn would make anyone named 'Zero' the polar opposite of the supposed hero of the movie. And doesn't that describe Cypher perfectly? Because he wasn't just a villain: He represented an entirely different philosophy of dealing with the machines, preferring blissful ignorance over fighting for a desolate piece of rock with a permanent layer of sun-blocking depression surrounding it."

"Believe it or not, one of the most difficult tasks you face as Dungeon Master is dreaming up cool names for all those places, gods, monsters, and NPCs you create. As superficial as this chore might seem, nothing kills interest in an AD&D® game faster than goofy names. The minute your players are attacked by Gargathrank the Unclean, a great deal of the credibility you've carefully fostered flies straight out the window. Don't forget that the players' first impressions of your game world are based, in part, on the names you choose."

"My name is Alice, but—" "It's a stupid name enough!" Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently; "What does it mean?" "Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully. "Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh...

— Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glassnote Interestingly enough, it is largely because of this work that the name Alice does mean something. (More literally, it means "of nobility".)

"Eino Leino! It was an Finnish Homopoet who was extremely negative: "Ei" means No in Finnish, and "No" means No in English. So his name was No No Lei No! And what Lei means, no one knows."

— Robert Gustavsson, as the Homofobic Herman Ers majestät, in one of his sketches.

They both started to feel themselves lose warmth, even as the upper floors' fire spread around them. They were alight as if in hell itself. Jaune could barely feel them, but he'd had a revelation once that he would go up in flames.

"And one of these kings was called Misho, and he was named Thrice-Radiant. To his peers, this was for his sorcery, his memory, and his swordsmanship. To the common people, it was for his insight, his charisma, and his compassion."

"You know what this means? It means The Last Stand series is a long con. This is what they were leading up to! They try to hook you on the early games, force you to play online later, then move in for the kill with Dead Zone. Man... I admit, when I saw this was made by "Con Artists Productions", I thought they were just being stylish. I didn't suspect this game was literally made by con artists. Like, my homepage is "Accursed Farms", but that's just a name I made up. I don't actually live on a farm with fallow earth, and possessed cows, and a sentient scarecrow like in that one scary stories book. Not yet, anyway."

"Fishiest of all fishy places was the Try Pots, which well deserved its name; for the pots there were always boiling chowders. Chowder for breakfast, and chowder for dinner, and chowder for supper, till you began to look for fish-bones coming through your clothes. The area before the house was paved with clam-shells."

"I thought about how Frank Herbert arrived at the name Arrakis. The Fremen are Buddhist Arabs. The Zen-Sunni wanderers. Their language is Arabic. Bi-lal Kaifa, Ilm & Fiqh, Karama & Ijaz, Kitab al-Ibar. Arrakis is meant to have descended from al-Rakis, "The Dancer." So, that's a path right there. Frank Herbert didn't think "What's a bad-ass name?" He thought "Who named this place? What language did they speak?" He further thought "How do planets get their names?" Well, 'planet' means 'wanderer.' Wanderer is Planet in Greek, so Arrakis is Dancer in Arabic. This was a fertile line of thinking."

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